Oceanic and Meteorological Surface Parameters from Satellite and Model Sources for the Mediterranean Sea available on CD-ROM from MEDIAS

Entry ID:
MEDIAS_MED_SURF_PARAM_CDROM

Summary

Abstract:
This CD-ROM data product is known as the Mediterranean Oceanic Data Base and is available from the Support Office for Regional Research on Global Environmental Change in the Mediterranean Basin and Subtropical Africa, also known as MEDIAS.

The dual CD-ROM package contains a one year set of surface parameters for 1994 over the Mediterranean sea from different data sources. These parameters, ... generated by different processing centers, are derived from space measurements or meteorological and sea state models. The database includes, among other parameters, sea surface temperature (NOAA/AVHRR) and sea surface height (TOPEX/POSEIDON and ERS-1), surface wind (ERS-1), solar irradiance (METEOSAT), meteorological parameters (surface temperature, moisture, pressure, wind, and heat flux), and sea state parameters (wave and swell height, direction and period). The meteorological and sea state parameters come from ARPEGE and WAM models provided by METEO-FRANCE.

The product is delivered with a data extraction interface and has browse capabilities. It is available for all scientific users.

The main goal of the MEDIAS network is to promote appropriate interdisciplinary studies that address global environmental issues from a regional perspective, and to develop longterm observing systems, data management, modelling, training, synthesis of results, and dialogue with the socio-economic world, on a collaborative basis at regional scale.